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Mike D's 1990 TTM Auto Project

We're going with something a little different this time around, working with 4 different small 1990 sets that I recently acquired. I'll break the cards up by team and work through each team to see who signs and will get requests.

A while back I did a 1990 Fleer Update TTM Project, so there may be some duplication in the send-outs from that, but I think the sets are a good enough mix that I should get plenty of players who didn't appear in the Fleer set.

Without futher ado, the 4 sets I'll be working with for this project are:

That's 438 total cards, which should take a while, but should be fun to work through.

I'll work through the teams in alphabetical order, which means we'll start with the Atlanta Braves. Hope you find this project enjoyable...hopefully we'll see a decent number of good signers and a lot of successes!

Before we dive in, a quick look at the four sets we'll be working with.

The 1990 Donruss Rookies set contains 56 cards of rookies from the 1990 season. It lists in Beckett for whopping $2, with no cards listed in Beckett, meaning they all have a "book value" of under 50 cents.

The 1990 Score Rising Stars set was released in complete set form by Score in 1990, and contains a mix of rookies and exciting young players. The set contains 100 cards. Beckett lists five cards from the set with values of $1 or more: Ken Griffey Jr ($2), Sammy Sosa ($3), John Olerud ($1), Randy Johnson ($1.50), and Curt Schilling ($2).

The 1990 Topps Major League Debut set is a monster at 152 cards. It's an interesting idea for a set...featuring cards of players who made their big league debut in 1989. That leads to some stars, but also a lot of short-timers. The set contains many players only cards because of this. The set lists in Beckett for $15, with the key cards being Juan Gonzalez ($2.50), Ken Griffey Jr. ($5), David Justice ($1), John Olerud ($1), Sammy Sosa ($4), and Larry Walker ($2.50).

The 1990 Topps Traded set contains 132 cards and is a mix of rookies and players who changed teams either via trade or free agent signings. Beckett lists the set at $3, with cards of David Justice and John Olerud listed at 50 cents each.

Gregg Olson - 97% success rate on SCN, so he'll get a request sent his way.

Curt Schilling - Appears to sign for a $20 donation to his charity. I may take him up on that at some point, but I'll use a Red Sox card, so we'll skip him for now.

Mike Smith - SCN has only one request for him, ever, and no successes. We'll skip him.

Mickey Weston - 81% success rate on SCN, with a couple requests around the beginning of the year, then two from this spring unfullfilled. What the heck, we'll give him a shot!

Craig Worthington - Another guy who appears to have stopped signed. 81% success rate on SCN, but only one success since 2005.

The Orioles gave us a solid showing, with 6 send outs among the 16 total players in the lot (37.5%). We'll send 6 out of the 20 total O's cards out in requests (30%). Not bad when you consider that there are 4 cards of non-signer Ben McDonald in the lot.

Wayne Edwards - SCN has him as only 3 successes in 9 attempts, so we'll pass.

Craig Grebeck - Has a 79% success rate on SCN, but no successes since 2007. I guess he's stopped signing.

Jack Hardy - 73% success rate. Not many attempts (2 in 2011, 1 in 2010) but all recent attempts have been successes, so we'll give him a shot. The 1990 Topps Major League Debut card is his only major league card, which might be the reason for very few requests.

Robin Ventura - 40% success rate with the last success being in early 2009. Looks like a bad bet, so we'll skip him.

We end up sending to 4 White Sox out of 15 total players (27%) in the set. We'll end up sending 4 cards out of 21 cards in the set (19%). Not a great showing, but hopefully those four will come back signed.

We end up sending to 3 White Sox out of 11 total players (27%) in the set. We'll end up sending 4 cards out of 17 cards in the set (24%). Not great, but at least there seems to be a few good signers in there.

John Wetteland - 9% success rate on SCN, with no successes since 2006, so we'll pass.

we'll end up sending requests to 5 of the 13 Dodgers in the set (38%). We'll send 6 of the 16 total cards (38%). That's a pretty good showing, although a couple of the guys we're sending to here aren't slam dunks.